University of Mannheim reports 2020 APC expenditures

The University of Mannheim has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2020 period.

The University Library Mannheim manages the university’s institutional Open Access Publication Fund. Please note that this fund is not supported by the DFG’s Open-Access Publishing Programme (contrary to most German universities participating in OpenAPC), but instead by Mannheim University Library, the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg and the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).

Contact Person is Philipp Zumstein.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 11 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 13 524€ and the average fee is 1 229€.

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Mannheim now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Kiel joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel as new contributing institution!

Kiel University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Dr. Eike Hentschel .

Cost data

The initial data set contributed by Kiel University Library covers publication fees for 59 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 88 705€ and the average fee is 1 503€.

The following table shows the payments Kiel University Library has made to publishers in 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 25 38824 1553
Springer Nature 8 13774 1722
Frontiers Media SA 7 12077 1725
Wiley-Blackwell 4 6693 1673
Copernicus GmbH 3 4845 1615
AME Publishing Company 2 2836 1418
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3260 1630
sub\urban e.V. 2 800 400
AIP Publishing 1 1332 1332
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 1906 1906
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 850 850
Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin 1 325 325
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 949 949
Universidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones 1 232 232

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Salzburg reports its 2018 to 2020 APC expenditures

The University of Salzburg has reported new APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 to 2020 period.

The University Library of Salzburg manages the university’s institutional Open Access Publication Fund.

Contact Person is Linda Ohrtmann.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 42 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 80 750€ and the average fee is 1 923€.

The following table shows the payments the University of Salzburg has made to publishers from 2018 to 2020 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 8 19910 2489
Springer Nature 8 21722 2715
MDPI AG 6 7350 1225
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 4 2500 625
JMIR Publications Inc. 3 7249 2416
BMJ 2 4614 2307
Elsevier BV 2 3314 1657
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3077 1538
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3110 1555
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 4135 4135
Cogitatio 1 1080 1080
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1422 1422
SAGE Publications 1 907 907
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 360 360

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Salzburg now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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